Director Ted Kotcheff’s exciting, tough though not-too-violent 1983 action war thriller Uncommon Valor follows the exploits of obsessed US Marine retired Colonel Jason Rhodes (Gene Hackman) and his dirty half-dozen of crack vets trying to […]
Director Terence Young’s 1955 British-Spanish historical adventure That Lady [La Princesa de Éboli] is an intriguing but largely disappointing Middle Ages costume-drama with Philip II (Paul Scofield), the King of Spain, abusing his position in […]
Director Ken Hughes’s weird 1956 British sci-fi espionage thriller film Timeslip [The Atomic Man] stars Gene Nelson and Faith Domergue as a US newsman and his girlfriend, who stumble across a near-drowned man, who turns […]
The sizzling 1983 film Under Fire is an absolutely thrilling, first-rate political action thriller about the Nicaragua conflict in 1979, with Gene Hackman and Nick Nolte at their best as compromised newsmen. Director Roger Spottiswoode’s […]
The urgent and timely 1993 American TV docudrama film And the Band Played On is directed by Roger Spottiswoode, who turns Randy Shilts’s controversial book about how and why the AIDS crisis happened into a […]
Director Lamont Johnson’s 1972 American made-for-TV drama film That Certain Summer, written by Richard Levinson and William Link, is a pioneer as the first to deal sympathetically with homosexuality. As well as being a historic […]
Director Alfred E Green’s well above just run-of-the-range 1941 Universal Pictures black and white Western film Badlands of Dakota stars Robert Stack, Broderick Crawford, Ann Rutherford, Richard Dix and Frances Farmer. Stack plays wastrel Jim Holliday, […]
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